Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystery in Boys. of course, is the character of Alan. Michael's straight friend from Georgetown days, who shows up unexpectedly at the birthday party Michael is throwing for his homosexual friends. Michael hopes that Alan is actually a "closet queer," so that his own guilt at being a homosexual will not be as strong...
...Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party. Michael, the party's huts, is 30-ish, charming and witty. In the early moments of the film, we find him talking to his friend Donald about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays...
Michael, perhaps the most "anxious queer" of them all, uses the game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story." he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse.") He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like himself. In the game...
...closer to the end, and Masters has got to deliver almost-sex and almost-violence. So he changes the guys on stage into savage monsters. They're under strict orders not to attack anybody. of course. but they look pretty mean. Then he changes the instructions-now they're queer monsters. The fans are going wild at this. (He's got a real thing about this type of stuff. Later on he changes Charlie into Lawrence of Arabia. "Now we all know about Lawrence of Arabia, don't we?" Wink at the audience. And for the final act-well...
...Psychological warfare: Right from the beginning we have been subjected to a barrage of straight propaganda. Since our parents don't know any homosexuals. we grow up thinking that we're alone and different and perverted. Our school friends identify "queer" with any non-conformist or bad behavior...